Ed Gein

A detailed Summary of Ed Gein

"In terms of numbers, Ed Gein was not much of a murderer, as serial

killers go. But viewed through the lens of sheer, lunatic atrocity, he was one

of the worst"(Time-Life Editors 106)

Edward Gein was born on August 8, 1906 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Gein had a

heavy drinking father by the name of George, a weak ineffectual brother by the name of

Henry who was 5 years older than Ed, and a domineering mother, known as Augusta nee

Loehrke, who had no use for sex or men. When Gein was 8, they moved to Plainfield in

1912. The two boys did the work around the 160-acre farm, but their mother ruled their

lives. She insisted they remain unmarried, and instilled the belief that women would

separate the family and betray any love that was there. His mother taught them at an early

age that sex was a sinful thing. Between 1940, and 1945, first his father, who was 60,

then Henry who was 45, and then his mother, who was 64 died. Henry died in a marsh

fire, and his mother suffered a stroke in 1944. Ed took care of her until a second stroke

took her life in 1945, leaving him alone for the first time at the age of 39 on a desolate

farm that did not have electricity. Gein was still emotionally enslaved t

his house of horrors. This sent shockwaves throughout the Eisenhower era.

told Worden that he'd stop by that day. The police jumped on this clue and the clue of a

comics and books, and pornographic magazines. Gein became interested when he heard

tyrannized his life. Gein later recalled his mother as good in every way.

his house. For the town of Plainfield, the crowning blow came when they

Soon Gein needed fresher samples and started killing live people. Gein killed

March 27,1958, a crime that was never solved. The car that he hauled Bernice

decapitated, naked, field dressed body of Bernice Worden hanging upside down and

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